Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-18
FUNERAL
Services Of Timothy Coop at the
Christian Church Last
Evening.
Addresses Of Chancellor III. w. Ever
est and DR.. A. I. HObbS-RemalnS
Leave on Evening Train fof
Their Last Resting Place.


The funeral services of the late Timothy
Coop were held last evening at the CHRISTIAN
church, corner of Second and Market streets.
The ladies of the congregation had beautl-
fully decorated the church in the manner
planned by the deceased before his death.
The platform was beautifully decorated with
flowers. In the rear of the pulpit was the
very appropriate scripture quotation, HE
Giveth His Beloved Sleep" The flowers were
singularly attended with draperies Of white.
The remains reached the church near
O'Clock, with DR.. A. n. Hobbs; Chancellor
H. W. Everett, Rev. P. r. Lucas, Rev. w.
B. Hendryx, Rev. A. j. Thompson and Kew.
]. II. Hickman, pall-bearers.
The services were opened by singing, fol-
lowed by reading Of select passages OF
scripture by the Rev. Hendryx. The audi
ence Yves led in prayer by the Rev. Lucas
The first address of the evening was by Chan
cellor H. W. Everest. After beautiful in
troductory the speaker gave brief synopsis
| of the life of the deceased He commanded
| ing is a synopsis of his speech:
Concerning the beloved dead our hearts
are at rest. We have a deep sense Of loss,
and to his family and his many intimate
| friends the future will be lonely indeed with
out him, but our souls find perfect repose in
| the assurance of divine goodness and mercy.
Whether we regard his religious faith. his
| life among men, or the manner OF his death,
as not a shadow dimmed the brightness OF
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| assurance that with him all is well. He has
fallen asleep in Jesus, blessed sleep! He has
departed to be with Christ. which is for bet
| ter. He has laid his burden down. He has
passed from the sight of earth into heavens
eternal day. From this land Of the dying
and the dead, he has gone to that better
country where they die no more, and by
| faith we can see him standing on the shin
ing shore welcomed home by angel bands and
by his own sainted dead. For him no tears
shall fall, but rather for ourselves, rather
| for those whom God has SO greatly bsreav-
ed
We come together, drawn hither by COM
mon feeling, that We may commune with
one another concerning our friend and broth
| er on whose brow death has set his signet
and whose manly face is so soon to be con-
cealed forever from our view. The child
rem will gather in the parlor, betimes, and
while pointing upward as TO an angel from
lowering over, will talk of the bright days
when they were not motaerlesS. Love
fingers by the cold and lifeless clay; it knows
well the pathway to the grave, upon which
the grass of many springs
has frightened and withered
it delights to handle the mementoes which
speak of the departed, though the while they
are believed with tears So we come to hold
these memorial services, and to receive,
| while our hearts are made sensitive by this
4 &C - L.. IN
We come together to express our sympathy
with his little band of mOurners, who in a
strange land, are called to bury beloved
husband and father out of their sight. We
come to make united supplication that the
God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
the God of all consolation, may sustain them
in this hour of their sore bereavement This
Is not the place nor the occasion for an ex-
tended account of Mr.. COops life A full
biography alone can do him justice, and
time must be given for loving hearts to ro
call and faithful pens to record what the
world cannot afford to lose; but a fe"
things should be called to mind to indicate
the greatness of our loss.
Mr.. Coop was born in the parish of West
houghton, county Of Lancashire, England
and had he lived until the aSth day of this
month of May he would have completed his
| 10Th year. His father was q silk weaver, used
a hand loom, and the son was brought up tC
the same trade. His parents were poor and
; he never enjoyed the advantages of school,
training He learned to read in the Sunday
school: the bible was his first and last tex,
book; the church was his college; the world
his university, and his diploma will be con
ferred by the Great Master himself. AT the
age of sixteen he became an apprentice In
the.sretail clothing business. At 10 be Wa.
) made the manager of branch establishment
at Wigan. Seven years after this be became
a partner in the establishment, having a:
capital in the business only what he haC
saved so far. For twenty-one years he held
this position and through business tact and
untiriDg industry continually rose in the
business world On the death of his partner
in 1854 he became the sole owner of the
establishment. In 1864 the manufacture OF
clothing for the wholesale trade was com
menced, and rapidly developed into one OF
the mcSt extensive business enterprises Oh
; the kind in England. From this time Mr.
Marsden, Mr.. Coop's son-in-law, became G
partner, and the style of the firm was
changed to Coop & Co. Some years after
Mr.. Coop's sons were taken into the business
Besides employing about one thousand opera
tiveS in this business, the firm has been ex
tensively engaged in cotton spinning ant
coal mining. A more successful bushes.
life cannot well be imagined, for he rose MOI
by speculation or some other freak of for
; tune, but by business foresight and thorough
ness. As a business man he was punctual
upright. just. and generous. His industry
was remarkable, and his plans broad and fal
reaching; he arrived at conclusions by act O
sound judgment, rather than by minute cal
5 culations. But this worldly success was ONLY
| the material foundation on which he bull
the beautiful superstructure OF his social ant
religious life.
Mr. Coops parents were Wesleyan
in religious faith and standing
M whsn to Rotor boy s,st,rcs he , used
Sunday, to attend the Sunday-school. /
was there that he learned to write, and Their
: that he laid the foundations of his scriptua
knowledge In this Sunday school he became
{ at length, a teacher, and had a class of youn,
f women whom he trained, as best he could, il
reading and writing. In 1S4l he first hear,
the plea for return to apostolic christianit,
as presented by the Campbells in thi
country and by others in England. On con
fe>sion of his faith in the Lord Jesus Chris
he was baptized and thence forward wa
identified with the Christian church in Eng
: land. Immediately he began to tell in hi
r own house, TO the friends who gathered there
/ and sometimes in open-air meetings, what
:, had learned. His first church consisted @
I" but three members, only one of whom no,
survives. Every Lords day they met in hi
house to observe the Lords supper and t
{ preach the gospel Soon after, this numbe
:, was increased to five. His preaching ws
II direct and simple. His hearers could a
:. understand him. He touched their hearts g
u well as stirred their intellects The outcon
IT was the building up Of a strong church
Wigan, his place of business This work b
had to do without education or money al,
in the teeth Of bitter opposition and ridicul
{, How his fidelity and faith put us to shame
the modern days. We can not go TO churc
unless it is convenient. Our church must |
i popular, and our preacher must prophec